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Secret Sins - Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920 — Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
Secret Sins - Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920 — Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Cyfrol sy'n bwrw golwg newydd ar ryw, trais a bywyd cymdeithasol yn sir Gaerfyrddin yn ystod y cyfnod 1870-1920. Argraffiad newydd; cyhoeddwyd gyntaf ym mis Rhagfyr 1996.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his successful book, Secret Sins . Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708325568
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708325568
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Secret Sins - Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920 — Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
- Sub Title
- Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
- Awdur / Author
- Davies, Russell
- Current Price ex VAT
- £12.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £12.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2012-12-07
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 328 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Hanes Economaidd a Chymdeithasol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Social and Economic History (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Russell Davies is the head of Marketing at Aberystwyth University.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
A very exciting book which will attract considerable attention - a challenging,passionately-written and meticulously researched volume. It highlights the personal experiences of the individual, and probes the private lives of people in order to fully appreciate the complex nature of society, uncovering layers of reality which have hitherto escaped us. ‘ . . . this is an essay in ‘total history’, and a very successful one too. It is made so by the fact that the author knows whereof he writes . . . He is a local boy with a fine sense of place and a feel for people which finds expression in an energetic prose and lively turn of phrase. This is not only a good book, it’s a good read.’ (English Historical Review) 'With this fascinating and beautifully-written volume Russell Davies has opened up new possibilities for the social history not only of rural Wales but of rural society across Britain . . . He is to be praised for his courage in firstly setting a new agenda, and secondly, managing it with such style and flair.' (Social History Bulletin) 'This exciting book is social history with the people left in - not the cracach in their fancy mansions but ordinary mortals in the damp, dismal cottages or terraced slums. It is a human and humane book, unsensational except in the way it exposes the cosy myths, sympathetic in its approach and kind in its conclusions . . . It succeeds admirably . . .' (Western Mail) ' . . . a dazzing canvas, thronged with the authentic voices and vices of countless long-lost individuals . . . Scarcely a page passes in this hugely entertaining book without some equally compelling and memorable scene playing itself out . . . this excellent book . . . is based on a tremendous amount of secondary reading and its treatment of topics such as religion and superstition in the principality - a much neglected theme - is extremely interesting . . . Wittily written, well produced and nicely illustrated, the book will become required reading for historians of Victorian Wales.' (Economic History Review) After an opening chapter on the demography, the author takes us on a less familiar journey: into a twilight world of mental illness and suicide, crime and protest, and sexuality and tension, religion, superstitions and popular culture. This is a humane study which challenges and indeed, disturbs. For beneath the respectable, Nonconformist Welsh society we are confronted with many broken, tragic lives, some ending in suicide. The detailed analysis of sexuality and tension overturns the cosy image often presented of the Welsh being a people of pure and faultless morals: we are offered insights into the life of the prostitute, into the extent of illegitimacy and into the many cases of indecent assaults on women. Market: Will have a wide appeal not only in Carmarthenshire (where it will prove a rather disturbing and controversial read) but to students of social history in general.
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